Collection: Ilios

Of all the city-states of Atalantia, Ilios - the City of the Sun - has perhaps the most astute citizens amongst the Atalantes, for they do not believe their path lies with the stars and decry those that do. Thus, the Ilioses plan and strategise against the myriad problems they are faced with upon this earth: the encroachment of the sea most of all, for lands are lost too frequently and Hephaestus sleeps poorly, and the growing strength of their former slaves and the raids of their enemies to the north and east. So it is that the Ilioses raise citizen-soldiers in numbers unheard of and turn to the ancient artifices that captured the power of the sun itself, the Colossi and the tauroi and the oplites of bronze, for their pride is strong and they will resist the death of Atalantia until their dying breath.